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Lion's Honey
- Author
- David Grossman
- Narrator
- Mel Foster
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 8 June 2012
- Run Time
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in the world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.
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- Author
- David Grossman
- Narrator
- Mel Foster
- Duration
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 June 2012
- ISBN
- 9780857865687
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Folklore studies / Study of myth
Synopsis
In Lion's Honey, award-winning writer David Grossman takes on one of the most vivid and controversial characters in the Bible. Revisiting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all, including the only one he ever loved. Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story and its climax, Samson's final act of death, brining down a temple on himself and three thousand Philistines.In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in the world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.
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